From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Okay, I have to ask this
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 22:33:17 -0700
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John Meyer wrote:

> What is "reverse engineering"?  And why is it illegal?

Reverse engineering is taking the machine code of a program and working
backward to see what kind of source (in whatever language) would give
you that code.

It's illegal (depends on the circumstances; certainly it's actionable)
in that it's copyright infringement.

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